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Sharing what delights me - Optical Illusion Fun, Left & Right Brain, Beloved Toys, Art Lessons & Clever Stuff, with maybe an occasional gripe thrown in. -
2011 Best Toys Guide, 2011 Top Toys List …….. Sez Who?!
You’re busy. Money’s tight. You want the best toy for your buck. Being smart, you turn to sources who’ve done the hunting for you. Sometimes that’s friends, mommy bloggers or Best Toy Guides and Top Toy Lists. But here’s a news flash. Some of those “Best Toys” and “Top Toys” sites on Google are bought…
“Coloring meets funhouse mirror magic” – A Review
The following review of Morph-O-Scopes Kits appeared in the September 2010 CoolMomPicks. We learned of it only weeks ago! The review is reprinted here with permission of Liz Gumbinner, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief of CoolMomPicks.com. “I’m not going to lie to you: When I opened the Morph-O-Scopes Kit box my daughter received for her birthday one year,…
Thinking Outside the Rubik’s Cube – Art Phenom Pixel Pete
“Dream Big” was a year-long project in which “Pixel Pete” Fecteau created a brilliant mosaic of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using 4,242 manipulated Rubik’s Cubes! Fecteau created the installation for ArtPrize2010 – Grand Rapids, Michigan’s fabulous annual art competition. Exhibit attendees’ votes determined the winner. “Dream Big” made it to the top 50 of…
Pumpkin Carving Par Excellence
Remember that “Pukin’ Pumpkin” a few years ago. The art has stepped up. A lot! Check out these ingenious works of pumpkin art by Ray Villafane, an American model designer and former art teacher – carved with just a spoon and a scalpel!
Do Nothing for the Next 10 Minutes but Watch this Clock!
Mind-Blowing 3-D Video Mapping The following is quoted from an article by Chris Jablonski, Emerging Tech reporter for zdnet.com. “For decades, artists like Krzysztof Wodiczko have created large-scale video projections on architectural facades and monuments. These days the craft includes 3D video mapping technologies that can accurately align projected images with a building’s exterior or…
I Spy Halloween Decorations and Inspirations
Need to decorate for Halloween on a shoestring? Check out these optical illusion assemblages by artist James Hopkins. His series of compositions named “Vanitas” are comprised of household objects arranged on plain bookshelves to form images of skulls. What a clever job of seeing forms of objects (freed from their everyday use). To Hopkins, teeth…
Optical Illusion Fashion – Shadow Knitting
In my last post I promised more optical illusion fashions. Shadow knitting is a clever optical illusion technique that produces patterns which vary with the direction of viewing. “The visual effect of shadow knitting is due to the different height of the knit stitches on the wrong side rows. A knit stitch is flat, while…
Optical Illusion – Hot Fashion Trend!
Optical illusion clothes are sizzling! The optical illusion dress worn by Kate Winslet (left) at the 68th Venice Film Festival last month has been creating lots of steamy press. It’s the Stella McCartney Bicolour Octavia, and it’s clever white “uplift” panel and black side panels make the wearer’s body appear va-va-voom hourglass slender. At the…
Summer was a Blur of Activity!
Three days ago, the new, easier-to-navigate OOZandOZ.com website went live! And two Saturdays ago, my daughter got married. As the only person with a station wagon, I was the default go-fer for cases of wine, ladders, seating, etc. What fun! What exciting beginnings! I couldn’t squeeze blog posts into the schedule, but boy did I…